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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 330 

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that until the United 

States southern border is secured as confirmed by the governors and 

the legislatures jointly of the four southern border states, the House 

of Representatives shall not bring any legislation including any conference 

report regarding immigration to the floor of the House for a vote. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

AUGUST 2, 2013 

Mr. GOHMERT (for himself, Mr. KING of Iowa, Mr. FLEMING, Mr. HARRIS, 

Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. STOCKMAN, Mr. POSEY, Mr. ROE of Tennessee, Mr. BROOKS of Alabama, Mr. 

BENTIVOLIO, Mr. YOHO, Mr. WEBER of Texas, Mr. MCCLINTOCK, and 

Mrs. BACHMANN) submitted the following resolution; which was referred 

to the Committee on Rules 

RESOLUTION 

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that 

until the United States southern border is secured as 

confirmed by the governors and the legislatures jointly 

of the four southern border states, the House of Representatives shall not bring any legislation including any 

conference report regarding immigration to the floor of 

the House for a vote. 

Whereas the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act 

(IRCA) expresses the sense of Congress that the immigration laws of the United States should be enforced vigorously and uniformly; 


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Whereas through increased government spending for a bigger 

staff and new surveillance technology IRCA promised to 

control the borders and ‘‘prevent and deter the illegal 

entry of aliens in the United States and the violation of 

the terms of their entry’’; 

Whereas IRCA did not include any trigger to secure the border before legalization; 

Whereas the employment verification system established 

under IRCA failed to prevent the hiring of undocumented 

immigrants; 

Whereas the Immigration and Naturalization Service and 

then the DHS failed to properly enforce the employer 

sanctions laws under IRCA; 

Whereas ten years after the 1986 Immigration Reform and 

Control Act was passed the estimated number of undocumented aliens almost doubled, from 3.2 million to 5.8 

million. Ten years after that, the number almost doubled 

again, to 11.6 million; 

Whereas the Congressional Budget Office projects that the 

Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act will result in 4.8 million new illegal immigrants and their U.S.-born children will be living 

in the United States by 2023; 

Whereas according to a 2010 Rasmussen poll 68 percent of 

likely voters think that securing the border is more important than granting amnesty to illegal aliens; 

Whereas President Obama previously promised to secure the 

U.S. border with Mexico; 

Whereas President Obama and the Secretary of Homeland 

Security Janet Napolitano have enacted policies outside 

of their Constitutional authority that deliberately underVerDate Mar 15 2010 00:35 Aug 03, 2013 Jkt 029200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\HR330.IH HR330

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mine immigration enforcement laws by instructing various law enforcement agencies, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and 

Border Patrol not to carry out their statutory duties; 

Whereas a recent GAO report found that only 129 miles of 

the approximate 2,000-mile border between the U.S. and 

Mexico are under ‘‘full control’’; and 

Whereas the non-partisan GAO also determined that less 

than half of the southwest border is under ‘‘operational 

control’’: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That until the United States southern bor2 der is secured as confirmed by the governors and the legis3 latures jointly of the four southern border states, the 

4 House of Representatives shall not bring any legislation 

5 including any conference report regarding immigration to 

6 the floor of the House for a vote. 

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